Share via

French police are searching for a 48-year-old music teacher who is alleged to have run away with his 15-year-old pupil. They fear he may be grooming the girl for a double suicide.

Laureleen Wavelet disappeared last Thursday from her home in Bully-les-Mines, near Calais, with her guitar teacher, Christophe Lamarre, who is a friend of Sylvain Wavelet, her father.

Mr Lamarre had developed a close relationship with the teenager and exchanged correspondence with her in which he talked about his desire to end his life, police said. The pair talked of travelling to the Netherlands, and the teacher had plans